Innovative Strategies and Practical Solutions

Designed by practitioners for practitioners, this book provides a wide-spectrum resource on many different aspects involved in the supply chain management, including contemporary applications. With contributions from leading experts from all over the world, the book includes innovative strategies…

The practice of supply chain management has become widespread in most industries. It is now included in the curriculum of many business schools in the United States and in many countries around the world. A number of professional associations, such as the American Production and Inventory Control…

A Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Guide to Resilience

In a world increasingly exposed to terrorism, piracy, and the trafficking of humans and narcotics, companies must ensure their supply chains and transportation networks ensure an efficient flow of goods, without compromising security. This new book on logistics and transportation security addresses…

Logistics, Transportation, and Distribution

Company executives in every field are recognizing the critical importance of entering into the global economy. As transportation and logistics companies follow their clients’ expansion into these international markets, they must be able to service their clients’ supply chain needs in new economies…

Fast Fashion and Its Negative Impact on Environment and Society

When thinking about lowering or changing consumption to lower carbon footprints, the obvious offenders come easily to mind: petroleum and petroleum products, paper and plastic, even food. But not clothes. Although the clothing industry is the second largest polluter after agriculture, most…

Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Science and Production Management (ESPM 2015), Tatranská Štrba, High Tatras Mountains, Slovak Republic, 16th-17th April 2015

These are the proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Science and Production Management, 16th – 17th April 2015, Tatranská Štrba, High Tatras Mountains - Slovak Republic . The proceedings contain articles focusing on:
- Production Management, Logistics- Industrial…

The Basics for Networking the Flow of Material, Information, and Cash

All too often, entrepreneurs start small businesses unaware of their need for a supply chain network. And, large companies are acquired and their product lines merged with little regard for supply chain network integration and rationalization. Written for practitioners by a practitioner with 40…

Drug Quality and Security Act

Error-proofing in the production process of pharmaceuticals isn’t just a matter of good business, it has life-and-death implications for consumers. To that end, the 2013 Drug Quality and Security Act in large part requires new mandates on tracking and tracing chain of custody in the supply chain.…

Integrating with Risk Management

Risk management in supply chain logistics has moved from being a nice-to-have to a necessity due to the number of variables that can cripple a business. Managing Supply Chain Risk: Integrating with Risk Management details the critical factors involved in managing supply chain risk. It discusses how…

This proceedings volume contains papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Management and Technology in Knowledge, Service, Tourism & Hospitality (SERVE 2014), covering a wide range of topics in the fields of knowledge and service management, web intelligence, tourism and…

Management, Tools, and Applications, Three Volume Set

Industrial Engineering: Management, Tools, and Applications, Three Volume Set provides innovation applications and case studies that are drawn from multiple countries. The chapters in the books represent the best papers from the International Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIIE) Conference…